Japan is an island country in East Asia. It is located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, and is bordered on the west...

Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million...

Anime (Japanese: アニメ, IPA: [aꜜɲime] ) is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, anime refers...

spoken mainly in Japan Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and...

militarism in Japan, and it was preceded by events including the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, Spanish Civil War, outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, and...

The Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January...

The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the...

The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and...

The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38–39,000 years ago. The Jōmon period, named after...

Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced...

Tokyo (/ˈtoʊkioʊ/; Japanese: 東京, Tōkyō, [toːkʲoː] ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (東京都, Tōkyō-to), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous...

Tokugawa jidai), is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300...

Rise and Fall of the Saigo Clan] (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: Rekishi Chosakenkyu-jo. Meyer, Eva-Maria (1999). Japans Kaiserhof in der Edo-Zeit: unter besonderer...

represents Japan in men's international football. It is controlled by the Japan Football Association (JFA), the governing body for football in Japan. As of...

Municipalities of Japan List of villages in Japan List of cities in Japan Japanese addressing system "Large City System of Japan"; graphic shows towns...

originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The...

minister of Japan (Japanese: 内閣総理大臣, Hepburn: Naikaku Sōri-Daijin) is the head of government of Japan, and the most powerful person in Japanese politics...

The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized...

in Japan. Cultural Properties of Japan National Treasures of Japan Cultural Landscapes of Japan National parks of Japan Kashimagari Tunnel "Japan". UNESCO...

Japan Standard Time (日本標準時, Nihon Hyōjunji, JST), or Japan Central Standard Time (中央標準時, Chūō Hyōjunji, JCST), is the standard time zone in Japan, 9 hours...

This is a list of current and defunct automobile manufacturers of Japan. Ales (see Otomo) Asahi (1937–c.1939) Aspark (2014–present) Atsuta (1930s) Autobacs...

Beziehung. Und die soll nun mit einem Freihandelsabkommen wachsen, das Japans Premierminister Shinzo Abe heute als „die Geburt der größten Wirtschaftszone...

of Japan (副総理, Fuku-sōri) is the second highest-ranking officer of the executive branch of the government of Japan after the prime minister of Japan, and...

Japan was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II from the surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, at the war's end until...

Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan. Forming one of the military branches of the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces...

Japanese people (Japanese: 日本人, Hepburn: Nihonjin) are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago. Japanese people constitute 97.4%...

The Japan Open (currently sponsored by Kinoshita Group) is a men's tennis tournament held in Ariake Tennis Forest Park with its center court Ariake Coliseum...

'Japanese Navy') was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's surrender in World War II. The Japan Maritime...

The yen (Japanese: 円, symbol: ¥; code: JPY) is the official currency of Japan. It is the third-most traded currency in the foreign exchange market, after...

based in Japan. For further information on the types of business entities in this country and their abbreviations, see "Business entities in Japan". Note...